Bangor police Officer David Farrar releases a mother and her eight baby ducks in a pond on Saturday, May 23, 2014, after he picked up the stranded family near the Texas Roadhouse on Stillwater Avenue.

BANGOR, Maine — A quick-handed police officer who was dispatched to Stillwater Avenue Saturday to assist with a stranded family of ducks caught in the median near the Texas Roadhouse was able to catch the family of nine, according to Sgt. Larry Webber.

Bangor police Officer David Farrar learned at about 4:15 p.m. about the duck family from Maine Game Warden Jim Fahey, who was too far away to respond, the sergeant said.

“Warden Fahey said a family of ducks was stranded by the Texas Roadhouse and Papa John’s,” Webber said “When Farrar arrived, there was a mother duck and eight babies. They were located in the flower bed by the Texas Roadhouse sign.”

Several Texas Roadhouse employees were standing nearby to ensure the duck family were not in danger from cars entering the shopping plaza.

“He grabbed the mother duck and put her in a dog kennel and the little ducks followed her right in,” Webber said. “He transported them to the bog at the end of the Kittredge Road and released them.”

“Farrar feels that Officer [Jose] Vidaurri and Officer [Keith] Larby had received all too much attention for their wrangling of a horse recently,” the story about the duck rescue says. “He refused to brag about the save but muttered something about the water hazard making the save much more difficult and therefore obviously more dangerous. Thanks, Officer Farrar. Great work.”